TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Target Iran: President Biden Has Decided to Strike Iranian Assets

Episode Date: January 30, 2024

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The disciples asked Jesus about the end of the age. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren't troubled. For all this must happen, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in many places. I'm Dr. Robert A. Shuler, and I'm on a mission to encourage Christian families to prepare for tough times. That's why I'm endorsing American Reserves.

American Reserves can help you build a food storehouse like Joseph in Egypt. American Reserves offers emergency food packages for a month or f of freeze dried beef and and fruits and powdered e quick delivery. A panic c to be emptied in hours. B This is True News, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help us God. I'm Rick Wiles. Today is Tuesday, January 30th, 2024. CNN reported today that President Joe Biden told reporters on Tuesday that he has made a decision

about the U.S. response to the drone strike that killed three U.S. service members and injured dozens at a U.S. military base in Jordan. When asked by a CNN reporter whether he has decided how to respond, Mr. Biden said simply, yes. But he declined to provide further details. So let's start today's True News with the latest updates on World War III. Later in the program, we'll talk about the Take Our Border Back convoy. And we'll also have an update on the farmers' revolt in France. And those boys are angry today.

You don't want to miss the French farmer revolt today on True News. So, Doc, it looks, I mean, this is not a surprise that President Biden is going to attack Iranian targets. Of course, there's no evidence Iran did it, but that doesn't matter. Why do you need evidence, Rick?

They've already had a verdict. You know, it's not like the drone was shot down. It's not like they had video of a drone with Iranian markings on it. They simply said. Because if they did, they would have trotted that out. Of course. So whoever did it, it doesn't matter.

Iran did it. I mean, for all we know, Israel could have sent the drone there. I wouldn't put it past them. I mean, look what they did today in the West Bank. You had Israeli agents dressed as Palestinians went inside a hospital, killed several doctors, and left dressed as Palestinians. And that was in the West Bank. That's the West Bank. Not Gaza.

That's not Gaza. So I'm not saying Israel did it. I'm just saying we don't have evidence that Iran did it. And in a court of law, you would not be able to get a – you could not extract punishment without a verdict. And you can't get a verdict without a trial without evidence. And you do look for motive, method, and opportunity. Yes. And both Israel and Iran had all three.

Right. But Iran would be absolutely boneheaded stupid to kill American soldiers. I mean, really would be stupid. You know what you're going to get. Yes. And so far through this Hamas war, Iran has not appeared like they really want to get in the fight. You know, they had the opportunity months ago to intervene on behalf of the Palestinians

and they stood down. Why would they be standing up now? What would be the, what would explain the change? So I'm just asking these questions because there's a very strong likelihood that within the next, maybe before today is over, the United States will bomb Iranian targets.

My hunch has always been for days since the weekend, we will bomb Iranian naval vessels. We'll probably sink a warship. Right, and that's the current buzz on social media right now, too, on X and several other platforms, is that there is going to be some sort of action either late this afternoon or this evening. That seems to be where the buzz is landing right now. Oh, sorry. I'm sorry. Go ahead, Doc. The New York Post here, it says the situation is incredibly volatile.

That's coming from Anthony Blinken. He says that the Middle East has been this dangerous since the 1973 Yom Kippur War. And he is right about that. But you have to ask the question about who is orchestrating the tension and all the danger that is in the Middle East right now. We had a statement from Secretary Blinken earlier. And he was with Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of NATO, and they were doing a press conference. And this is what Secretary Blinken said about the volatility of the world right now, in particular the Middle East. Let's watch. Look, first, I think it's very important to note that this is an incredibly volatile time in the Middle East.

I would argue that we've not seen a situation as dangerous as the one we're facing now across the region since at least 1973, and arguably even before that. And that is the environment in which we're operating. And of course, that was triggered by the horrific attacks of October 7th by Hamas against innocent men, women, and children. We've made very, very clear from day one that we're going to defend our people, we're going to defend our personnel, we're going to defend our interests. And that's exactly what we've done. We've taken action and significant action to deter groups, to degrade their capabilities in Iraq, in Syria, in Yemen. At the same time, the president's been very clear that we want to prevent broader escalation.

We want to prevent this conflict from spreading. So we are intent on doing both. That is, standing up for our people when they're attacked, while at the same time working every single day to prevent the conflict from growing and spreading. And that's exactly what we'll continue to do. It's fundamentally what's in the interest of the United States, what's in the interest of the region, and I think what's in the interest of the world. But the President said this, I think virtually from day one to anyone who would try to use the crisis in the Middle East, the conflict in the Middle East

to sow further instability and to use it as an excuse to attack our personnel. We will respond. We will respond strongly. We will respond at a time and place of our choosing. And obviously, I'm not going to telegraph what we might do in this instance or get ahead of the president. But I can, again, tell you that, as the president said yesterday, we will respond. And that response could be multileveled, come in stages, and be sustained over time. Did you hear the three things that he said? Well, the one thing that stood out to me when I heard this earlier was he said, we don't want to get ahead of the president, which tells me they already have the plan in place. Of course. They just have to wait for Joe Biden to roll it out, to announce it.

It's done. And he gave us three things right at the end. And I don't know if our guys in the control room, if you can just play the last, what is it, about the last 15 seconds. He told us the three things that's in the plan. I know I'm asking you guys to do some editing in real time there, but it was like in that last 15 seconds. He said, can we do it? Let's go. Okay. What we might do in this instance or get ahead of the president, but I can again tell you that as the president said yesterday, we will respond. And that response could be multileveled, come in stages, and be sustained over time.

Multilevel, come in stages, sustained over time. Multilevel meaning we could hit in multiple targets. It will come in stages. It's not going to be a one-time event. And it will be sustained over time. Dr. War's on. The war's on. That's what I got out of that.

The war with Iran, it's on. They're going to hit multiple targets in multiple stages that will be sustained over time. Not one day, not two days, weeks, months. Multiple attacks on multiple targets. That's what Secretary Blinken just told us. He knows the plan. He's already seen the plan.'s already seen the plan he helped formulate the plan right by the way he looked um secretary blinken appears he looks uh

tired and weary did you notice that he did seem a bit down there. But his eyes, his face, he looks very tired and weary. Whenever you have the Secretary of State of the United States of America say, this is the most dangerous time since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, that's a significant statement. Right. And I believe he believes it. And I believe that's why he looks tired and weary. I don't think he wants an all-out war. Mr. Blinken, I don't think he does.

I think he knows Mr. Netanyahu does. His tribal brother. I don't think they're working in unison. I really don't. I don't think Anthony Blinken wants to go down in history as the secretary of state that participated in World War III in the Middle East. But he knows that his tribal brother, Netanyahu, is salivating for that war. And Netanyahu is not going to make any major moves until the U.S. is involved.

But the way Netanyahu works is that he'll push you to make the move. He'll take you by the hand or he'll get behind you and push. Either way, he will assist you in making the move that he wants. And how would he do that? A drone attack on a U.S. military base that kills American soldiers and then blame it on Iran. Now, maybe Iran did it, Doc. I'm not exonerating Iran. I'm not doing that at all. I just learned after 25 years of doing this job that you don't jump to conclusions at the first sight of some event that happens. And by the way, speaking of that strike, you notice how the narrative changed in the first 24 hours on it.

It was a strike by Iran, right? And then it was an intelligence failure on the part of the U.S. Oh, we made a mistake. There was another drone coming in at the same time, a U.S. drone, and then this drone kind of snuck in, I guess, right? And so did you notice that they changed that story? Well, they had to come, I mean, they had to explain how did this drone get over top a U.S. military base? So the explanation was that it glided in with a U.S. drone. But what was the U.S. drone doing? It was doing the same thing an Iranian drone would do, right?

So the U.S. drone was killing people too, right? That's right. But it just seemed odd how that narrative changed just within 24 – not even 24 hours. I think it was just within a few hours after the supposed strike. And once again, there's no pictures of the drone. There's no – remember in the past they used to trot out the drones and everything? Sure. Here's the wing. Well, they didn't shoot it down.

So that's another embarrassment for the U.S. military. Right. They didn't defend the base. And those soldiers who were killed and injured, most of them were sleeping. Yes. So somebody was asleep on the job at the U.S. base. Maybe. Maybe.

I'm just cynical now. I know, like October 7th. The entire military of Israel, intelligence agencies of Israel, they were all doing what? What were they doing? Watching movies? I mean, in Israel, in Palestine, the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, anywhere the Arabs live. They're soldiers. There are not only soldiers. There are cameras.

Yes. There are microphones. There are drones. Everywhere. They watch everything the Palestinians do. I am not going to believe that somehow Hamas carried off that attack on October 7th, and nobody in the Israeli government knew anything about it. And I find it difficult to believe that after talking, we're going – we've got to bomb Iran. We've got to bomb Iran.

Remember McCain? Bomb, bomb,ccain bomb bomb bomb bomb iran uh and for weeks and weeks now and then conveniently iran does the stupid thing and sends a drone and attacks u.s troops i did i don't believe it if iran did it they're dumb and they deserve what they're going to get. But I don't believe everything that I read. I watch. I pay attention. I discern. I pray about it.

I try to figure out who stands to gain by starting a war. So what you and I need to know is that sometime today or tomorrow, I can't believe this is going to go on to the end of the week, sometime in the very near future, perhaps before this episode of True News is finished, the United States is going to launch the first attack on Iranian targets. Mr. Blinken said multilateral attacks that will come in stages and be sustained over time. This is going to go on for weeks or months. So does that mean we're at war with Iran? We're at war with Iran. Well, now, back in 2020, Joe Biden blamed Trump for trying to take us into

war with Iran without congressional approval. Does President Biden have congressional approval to take us into war to attack Iran? In a limited way, not to go to war, but in a limited way because U.S. soldiers were killed. He does have legal – the Congress has given him some legal leeway to respond to a military attack. But again, there's no evidence Iran did it. Right. So that doesn't matter. It's being set up. We're going to attack Iran. The pressure is on. And if he doesn't do it, he's called a wimp. Right. And so it's very convenient. It's very convenient. All you have to do is attack American troops and blame your enemy. And the United States will attack your enemy.

Isn't that what happened with Iraq? Yes. Where are the weapons of mass destruction? You mean they're at the unicorn farm is where they're at, Rick, because there's no such thing as unicorns either. But we went to war and we killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens. Not soldiers. I mean, we killed soldiers but hundreds of thousands of innocent iraqi people died because george w bush and dick cheney and colin fairy tale

and tony blair and the american news media the war establishment lied to the American people, lied to the world, and said Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction and he can strike within 45 minutes. We've got to go to war. And we did. And we did. But it was an Israeli war. And American men died fighting for Israel. And they're getting ready to do it again. And we're going to do it again.

But this, Iran is not Iraq. Iran is Persia. They've been around a while. Folks, you need to know about Persia. They've been in a lot of wars. And they've been prepared for this war for a long time. Right. Saddam Hussein never really thought the U.S would attack him he was on the cia payroll he got that job through the cia originally he was on the

payroll i always surmise that somewhere along the way somewhere along the way saddam hussein double crossed the bush family it has something to do with with the bushes and israel he double crossed them because he had been on the cia payroll for a long time that's right so we're going to go to war with iran and folks it's going to happen very very soon and there will be an attack i I don't know when Iran will respond. You know, I don't think they're going to respond immediately. Folks, once this, the fight is on now. The fight is on. You might as well just, you might as well take a deep breath and realize we've crossed the line.

Right. When the U.S. bombs Iran, whatever target they're going to use, we've crossed the line. The fight is on. Whatever preparation, I'm telling you, the time to prepare is dwindling. It's like the sand dropping in an hourglass. There's hardly any sand left in the upper chamber. There's very little time left to prepare. Doc, let's take a look at Daily Mail.

Daily Mail in London reporting Joe Biden is considering striking Iranian naval assets in the Persian Gulf. Right. So President Biden is considering striking Iranian naval assets in the Persian Gulf. Right. So President Biden is considering that. The president has demanded advisers presenting with options on how to respond to the attack without dragging the U.S. into battle in the Middle East. That's coming from Politico. Insiders revealed any revenge bombings will take place in the coming days as the commander in chief and military brass study a range of targets. And as we heard from Secretary Blinken, that decision and the plan of action has probably already been made.

It's just the timing at this point. So that's all we're waiting for. Is the Lloyd Alston scandal over? Well, he's back at work now. He's back at the Pentagon. But is the scandal over? There are a lot of questions in my mind. But nobody's going to demand answers.

No, of course not. You know why? Because we're going to be in war. That's right. We don't have time to ask him, what were you doing in the hospital? Don't have time. We've got a war to fight. So that scandal's over. What we're hearing out of the Daily Mail is that President Biden has made a decision to attack Iranian naval targets.

To me, I read that as there's an Iranian warship that's going to go to the bottom of the Mediterranean. Baby, once that happens, it's on. It's on. That means there's an American warship that's going to go to the bottom with thousands of American sailors on it. For whom?

Why are we fighting with Iran? What is our beef with Iran? It's over Israel. Yes. If there wasn't Israel, would we be at war with Iran? Or if there wasn't a Netanyahu in Israel

right now, would we be at war? No. No, he's the troublemaker. He's the warmonger. And the United States is always at war with somebody in the arab world the person of israel because of israel right cut off the relationship with israel and america is at peace

it's just that simple it is but but the reality is that's not going to happen because we're so far in bed with Israel. We're under the covers. I mean that's where we're at with Israel. There's no backing down. And when you have a conflict anywhere in the Middle East, both sides of the political spectrum here in the US are heavy making hay because you can't threaten Israel. Get out and do each other. Right. Let's get a bigger war going, depending on the Democrats or Republicans.

There's no one that says, how about some peace? Instead of pieces of the Middle East, how about peace in the Middle East? Each politician wants to outdo the other one on how much destruction they will do. So Nikki Haley, the queen of war, she says, let's assassinate Iranian leaders. Yeah, Nikki, that'll calm

things down. She's proposing assassination of the leaders of another country. What if Iran, what if somebody running for president of Iran said, you elect me and I will shoot the president of the United States? What if they said that? Well, we would take that personally, wouldn't we?

We would get very upset. Hey, we got to do something about Iran. If this guy gets elected, he's going to order his intelligence team to shoot our politicians. And we would do everything we could to prevent him from being elected, too, right? You better believe it. But Miss Nikki, the queen of war, she says, put me in the White House and I will send the assassins to Tehran. Here she is.

I mean, a series of attacks. This is 160 strikes. I mean, as a military spouse, this is what we fear when our loved ones are overseas. If you're not taking care of them, that something like this happens. This is not about hitting Iran hard. This is about hitting Iran smart. It's making sure I don't know what Biden is waiting on. He has got to strengthen those sanctions. When he loosened them, he allowed billions of dollars from China to go into Iran when they imported oil. You've got to take away the money from Iran because that takes away the money from the proxies. That's the first thing they need to do. The second thing they need to do

is to go and take out any of the production sites that are allowing them to do this in Iraq and Syria that they're coming from. And then the third thing is you have to figure out which Iranian leaders are making the decisions and you take them out. This isn't about hitting Iran. This is about being strategic and smart about what you do take out. When you do that, you're taking away their capabilities of hurting more American soldiers. Let's see, she served as the governor of South Carolina, but she is a war expert now. Nothing against South Carolina. Wonderful state.

Love South Carolina. But she talks like she's an expert on World War. And we're listening to her? Well, she did serve on the board of Boeing. Oh, yes. But she gets her support from Tel Aviv. She gets her support from the Zionist lobby in America. That's the truth.

That is the backbone of her support. The Zionist lobby in America. They want their girl in the White House. If Nikki's in the White House, baby, we got four more years of war. We'll bomb people we didn't even know exist. We'll create

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You won't be able to get any more food. I wanted to start out today's second half here in this first hour with number eight. This is RT. Put nuclear weapons in Cuba, says Russian member of parliament. What sparked that response from him? Well, I'll tell you what, because the other day,

the British papers reported that the Biden administration is going to be deploying American nuclear missiles in Great Britain. Right. So this gentleman in Russia, who's a member of the parliament, said, that's okay with us. We're going to put missiles in Cuba. That's right. So Russia should place its nuclear weapons in friendly countries near the U.S. in response

to Washington's alleged plans to move its own tactical arms to Europe. That's coming from lawmaker Alexei Zurolev. His comments came after The Telegraph reported on Saturday that the U.S. is looking to deploy its nuclear weapons in the U.K. for the first time in 15 years in order to counter a supposedly increased threat from Russia itself. So in a post on Telegram, Zurolev, who is first deputy chairman of the Russian Parliamentary Defense Committee, that'd be like our Armed Services Committee here in the U.S., and leader of the Rodina party, pointed out that Britain has its own nuclear weapons. That is a good point. And that the U.S. has already deployed part of its atomic arsenal to several European countries close to Russia. Therefore, he said, it's unlikely that additional deployment, deployment of nuclear weapons

to the UK would have an effect on the military political landscape. Nevertheless, the politicians suggest that Moscow should consider deploying its own nuclear weapons closer to the US and send them to friendly countries like Cuba, Venezuela, or even Nicaragua. Can you imagine nuclear weapons 90 miles off the coast of the U.S.? It was called the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. I mean, that's what that was all about. People were digging holes in the ground.

Right. So we're back to where we were at in 1962. But it's even worse now. The situation is far worse. And not only Cuba, but there may be nukes in Venezuela and Nicaragua. Doc, the war in Ukraine. You go back to pre-February 2022.

There was no ongoing war. There was a conflict taking place in several provinces. The Russian-speaking provinces of Ukraine where the Ukrainian government was attacking the Russian-speaking people. They wanted to break away, create their own country. They had a little civil war going on there and the russians were were telling the west hey you've got to make ukraine stop bombing those people you know leave them alone they you know they're russian speaking people living in ukraine they want their independence so we got to this point by February, we got a war.

So the West responded with two things. They sent weapons and they put extremely draconian economic financial sanctions on Russia to break the back of the Russian economy. And which the West calculated

it would collapse Russia within months. The Western newspapers were writing obituaries for the Russian economy two years ago. Well I want to show you where we're at today. This is the Financial Times of London. The International Monetary Fund raises Russia's growth outlook as war boosts its economy. The Russian economy is growing because of the war. Yes. The Russians said, we're going to figure this out. They're squeezing us.

They're choking the life out of us. But we're Russian. We're going to figure this out they're squeezing us they're choking the life out of us but we're Russian we're going to figure this out we're not going to give in to them we're going to figure out how to survive not only did they survive they're thriving and yet I didn't bring it along

there's another report that the German economy is in recession. Well, the whole thing backfired. Russia's prospering and Germany's declining. Yeah, we make the same

argument on this side that all that military spending is good for all of our economies, right? Except we're going into debt. Yes. We're giving Ukraine money that we had to borrow. How insane is that? Doc, if you were borrowing money to give it to somebody, I would say, hey, Doc, I got to sit down and talk with you.

You don't understand. Please do. I mean, I would encourage you to I would say doc you don't understand the laws of finance you're going to go bankrupt you're borrowing money to give it to somebody else

you can't get out of this that's what America is doing we are borrowing money to give it to Ukraine. I don't know how insane of a policy you can get when you don't have enough money to pay your bills and you borrow

money to pay your bills and then you give the money by the billions, hundreds of billions to another country to blow it up. But it's money by the billions, hundreds of billions to another country? To blow it up? To blow it up. But it's good for our economy.

The Western leaders are psychopaths. Doc, they really are psychopaths. I can't get out of my mind Boris Johnson reporting for duty. RT, Moscow doesn't give a damn that Japan is upset over the islands. That's what Dmitry Medvedev said.

This is talking about the Kuril Islands in the Pacific. These are islands that Japan and Russia have argued since World War II, who owns the islands. We've told this story before. Doc and I were in St. Petersburg, Russia, 2018. We were in a conference where Putin was on the stage. Shinzo Abe, who's now dead, was there. Emmanuel Macron, Christine Lagarde. And Putin said to Shinzo Abe, who at that time was the prime minister of Japan, that he wanted a peace treaty with japan right and i'm like i didn't even know that they were at war well they're not fighting each i know that but i i just

assumed that world war ii was over i didn't know that technically legally it wasn't over i i did know that about the united states in korea and the Korean War, but I didn't know that legally Russia and Japan have never signed a peace treaty from World War II. And we're already into World War III, and you guys haven't even settled World War II. Yes, and it's all over the Kuril Islands. And that meeting was very conciliatory, what we witnessed. I was there like, hey, they're going to sign a peace treaty. They're here talking like they're reasonable friends. And that was also the same meeting where Putin offered to defend Europe.

France, yeah, and Europe. From who? Who would we need to defend ourselves from? There's only one country. The United States. So where are we at now in 2024? Basically, Medvedev gave the finger to Japan and said, we don't care if you're angry or not. We're not talking about this anymore.

Yeah, Japan calls them disputed islands. Medvedev says there's no dispute here. There are islands. There's nothing to negotiate here. We've got it in the Constitution. It's not going anywhere. He said, this is Medvedev talking to the Japanese. He said, anybody who is unhappy with the situation should end their life in a traditional Japanese way.

There was a picture posted with it, with the Japanese warriors and the robes and everything, with the swords and everything aimed at their gut. And he was saying, if your feelings are hurt you fall on your sword that's to change an attitude of the russians they don't care anymore they're done because what happened talk russia and japan when we were there in 2018 they were getting ready to sign a peace treaty who got in the middle of them and stirred it up? The U.S. and NATO. Of course. Now, hey, let's turn our attention

to the French farmers because they have made it to Paris. And here's the telegraph in London. French farmers lay siege to Paris with vow to cut off the food supply. They're laying siege to Paris. The farmers are saying, we're not going to let any food come into Paris.

Well, Paris, like all major Western cities, has a three-day supply of food. Did you hear what I just said? You better say it again, Rick. Paris, like all major Western cities, has a three-day supply of food in their grocery stores and warehouses three days the warehouses will be empty in three days if no more trucks arrive to replenish the warehouses americanreserves.com AmericanReserves.com

You better have your own warehouse On your property That has more than three days supply of food Because whatever town you're living in They have three days worth of food in the warehouses That's it Three days Because it's just

on-demand inventory. And so the West went to this model years ago. All we need is just enough inventory for the current demand. Right. Our warehouses are actually on

wheels. They're not in buildings. They're in trucks. Yeah. That's right. So what happens if the trucks can't come in? You don't have food. So this is what the Telegraph reported. Hundreds of tractors laid siege to Paris on Monday as farmers furious at French and European rules say that they intended to starve Parisians.

Long lines of tractors blocked motorcades at eight entry points to the city as one militant farmer's union promised to take control of the world's biggest fresh food market. He said blocking Paris will actually will happen naturally. Parisians are going to be hungry. The goal is to starve them, says Benoit Duran, a grain farmer. The main farming unions do not back strangling Paris's food supplies. But on Monday night, angry farmers refused to move, setting up barbecues on motorways and sleeping in trailers.

Now here it is, folks, listen. Listen to me, listen. In the event of major disruptions, Paris would have only three days food supplies as deliveries are made every day according to a government agency. Your city has three days worth of food. Maybe.

Maybe. Maybe. Because they're assuming the trucks will arrive every day in America. What if the trucks can't get through? What if there are no trucks? What if there's no food in the warehouses? How many days supply of food do you have on your property? Forget about what's down the street at the grocery store.

How much food do you have on your property? You better have more than three days. Yeah, if I could, I had a mini wake-up call on Sunday. My wife and I went to Walmart, and this was Sunday evening, late Sunday afternoon. And it was like half the stock in the store was gone in the grocery section. I mean, there were empty shelves. There were spaces open in the refrigerated section. You couldn't buy any cheese.

At Walmart. At Walmart. Here at a local Walmart. And I'm like going, this is really weird. Did the war start while you were sleeping? I thought, you know, I was busy today, but did I miss something? And I asked, and it just happened there was a clerk standing by, and I said, hey, what's going on here? He said, well, we've got eight trailers parked out back that we don't

have enough people to unload them. They don't have the employees to unload them. They had eight trailers parked behind Walmart. Because nobody showed up for work. Yes. That's just one link in the chain. One link in the chain. Folks, when things go

crazy, there'll be people to unload the trucks, but they won't be employees. That's right. The food will never get into the grocery stores in America. That could be happening in the next week in this country, depending on how Iran responds to the bombing of their assets. We could see these things happen in this country in the next seven days. Imagine if there was a three-day siege. I mean, if there was a siege of Paris,

a real siege of Paris. Imagine on day four what Paris is going to look like. Well, let's look at the videos. I got a wide selection. So here we go. They're delivering food. These are the French farmers, and they have stopped trucks carrying imported food from other countries, saying, well, we think we'll just unload the trucks right here.

Right on the highway. Don't ever tick off French farmers. That's what i've learned this week doc and for goodness sake don't bring in any foreign red peppers into oh yeah now this this doc i got upset over this because i'm a pepper head and they threw away not only did they throw away all the peppers they overturned truck on fire turned it over They flipped over the pepper truck and set it on fire. The truck was hotter than the peppers. I like roasted peppers, but not on the highway. Do you understand how angry the people are right now?

They're tired of Agenda 2030. They're tired of the globalists. They're tired of the globalists. They're tired of the green agenda. They're tired of people saying you're not going to be allowed to have gasoline and diesel engines. They're tired of it. You can't have cows. You can't have cows. Because they fart.

Yes. They're just tired of it. And look at this. they're painting the government buildings with manure with manure that's my favorite thing right there i love this um they've set up a block blockade with tires old tires gosh i would like to do that that's that's in my fantasy like what to have a manure a manure sprayer aimed at globalists and just spray them. That would be my fantasy if I could live out something like that. I would feel like I've released a lot of frustration if I could just wet down the World Economic Forum.

If you could just get... If we could generally recycle their manure and spray it back at them. Yes. Can you imagine aiming that at Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates? I wouldn't want to hurt them.

But I would like to just tie them to a post and spray them. That would be fun. What do we have next coming up here? All right. So French farmers are fed up, especially with the EU.

And so they're tearing down EU flags. You've got to know, this makes me feel good to see them actually responding. Hey, look at this. The farmers have created some new land to cultivate. That's right. It used to be a highway. Right. So they made it arable land.

Now you can plant crops there. I've got to hand it to the French farmers. They're creative. Creativity there. They are creative. They're sitting around. Oh, hey, look at this. So they've set tires on fire around the Toulouse airport.

And, of course, the black smoke from the tires creates visibility problems at the airport. Basically shuts down the Toulouse airport just with a couple of piles of burning tires. Yeah, because it's hard to take off. That's right. On a flight when the sky is black from burning tires. Do we have any more? Oh, yeah. The taxi drivers have joined in with it.

So they've actually now started in the protest as well. How would you know that the taxi drivers have joined? That looks like a typical scene in any city. Well, but now what they're doing is actually joining with the farmers and blocking the roads uh that says a lot now there are now starting to be some confrontations between the police and farmers although it hasn't escalated yet but it's it's you're beginning to see the first wave of of where they're bringing in armored vehicles now. Armored vehicles to confront farmers.

And so this is an example here. The farmers will just go around them. Look, they've got the machinery to go around the blockades. This is just so cool, just to watch this. You want to block the roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads. That's right. They knock

things over every day so the french the french farmers are angry the german farmers are angry the dutch farmers are angry the polish farmers are angry well here in america there's a convoy. And this is KXAN-TV in Texas. Take our border back convoy headed heading through central Texas to Eagle Pass, Texas. different directions of the United States, thousands of truckers, to express the frustration of the American people about the open border. And the TV station said that, the one thing I want to see in here, they quoted an organizer. We're not going to blockade. We don't want to cause any problems. I want to say something here.

I totally support the convoy. I share in their frustration. I share in their outrage over the influx. It's not just an influx. It's an invasion of millions of people from foreign countries. It's been happening for years. I've been talking about the border since I started in 1999. Hard to believe.

I was doing interviews about the border in 1999. Here we are in 2024. We're still – it doing interviews about the border in 1999. Here we are in 2024. We're still, it's worse than it was in 99. You couldn't imagine. You couldn't imagine that this is happening. Just open border. So I'm in complete agreement, solidarity with the take back our border movement. I'm as frustrated as they are.

But I'm just going to tell you my honest evaluation. It will fail. It will fizzle. It will accomplish nothing. You can ride in trucks all day long and listen to Jerry Reed.

And Washington doesn't give a flip. George Soros doesn't care. None of them care. You can wave your flags and ride up and down highways and trucks and honk your horns. They don't care. They don't care. They don't care. What you have to do is act like a French farmer. And the Americans don't have the backbone to do it.

I'm going to put up on the screen right now number 24. I lived in Maryland most of my life. That's called the Washington Beltway. The D.C. Beltway, the Washington Beltway. It's a loop that goes around that thing we call Washington. It goes through Maryland and Virginia. Take back our borders, organizers, if you really are serious about shutting the border, then shut the beltway. Shut down the beltway.

Choke them inside the beltway. No food can get in. They got three days supply of food. Mitch McConnell can't get out. Chuckie Schumer can't get in. They're trapped. Put tens of thousands of trucks and cars on the beltway and turn off the engines. Shut it down.

All these trucks that I've heard numbers into tens of thousands of trucks headed to Texas to do what? Drive up and down the road and honk your horn and play Jerry Reed songs. The globalists don't care. You don scare them they're laughing at you they're laughing at americans park those trucks on the beltway turn off the motor and take the keys out of the ignition then you will shut down the border because you will shut down the border because you'll shut down D.C. That's the only thing you can do.

But the Americans don't have the guts and the backbone to do it. They don't have the backbone to do it. When I read that one of the organizers said, well, there's not going to be a blockade. Oh, blow it out of your ear now. You've got to act like a French farmer.

You got to spray down. You got to get the manure trucks. Get the manure trucks into D.C. They don't, you don't frighten them. I'm not calling for violence. I'm calling for militant resistance to the globalist agenda.

You've got to play at their level. They don't mind spraying you and me with manure, do they? They do it every day. They do it every day. You've got to shut down D.C. Then they'll listen to you. When there's no food getting into D.C., then they'll listen to you. When there's no food getting into D.C., when nobody can get out, because put that map back up,

you're not leaving. The only way you can get out is by plane. That's it. You're not going anywhere. If that entire beltway is roadblocked with trucks for weeks, load your trailers with enough food to live in those trucks for weeks. How are they going to move that many trucks? Is Biden going to bring in F-16 and bomb the trucks? What's he going to do?

No, Washington will say, you know what? We've pushed the American people too far. Now they're mad. They're acting like French farmers. Oh, yeah, we like to talk about the Tea Party. What a sellout that was. No, I'm talking about the original tea party. Oh, back in...

When they actually did a tea party, okay? Where they dressed up as Indians and had a tea party. I thought you meant the more recent tea party. No, what they do is dress up as patriots and not do anything. And called the tea party. Well, I didn't see any tea dropped into the harbor. Because we don't want to cause any problems.

It's because you've drank enough fluoride. You're not going to do anything. You're on so many meds, you're not going to do anything. They've dissolved your backbone with their meds. So where am I about this convoy? I hope it does.

I wish them well. Am I expecting something to happen? Nope, not at all. Nope, because there's going to be a war in Persia. Nobody's going to pay attention to your truck convoy it worked in israel didn't it sure it did didn't it they were heading toward a confrontation so they were going to drag net yahoo out of his house that's right and then we had a war what a coincidence what a coincidence yes sir so that's where i see uh I'm going to put on the screen really fast number 25.

You want to know what's wrong with the country? Nearly one third of all of the members of Generation Z are gay. One third of Generation Z identify as homosexual. You can have your convoys all day long, but until you deal with the sin of America, nothing's going to change. You're under an invasion, and an invasion is God sent.

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We appreciate you tuning in here live with us each and every weekday morning at 8 a.m. Eastern Time. Today we're going to be focusing on Matthew chapter 3, verses 5 through 9. So if you have your Bibles right now, open them up with me. Read along with me. I'm reading from the King James, starting at verse 5. Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region round about Jordan, and were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, God bless the reading of his word today. Amen. Then they went out to him, then went out to him, Jerusalem and

all Judea and all the region round about Jordan. There's a popular saying in modern American culture, build it and they will come. It's actually a misquote from Kevin Costner's 1989 movie, Field of Dreams. The actual line in the movie is, if you build it, he will come. But in the case of John the Baptist, we could say, preach it and they will come. John did not go to the cities to find an audience. The people in the cities and towns traveled long distances through the wilderness to find John, to hear his radical religious message. Verse 5 says, and all Judea and all the region round about Jordan. It doesn't mean that all the citizens of those areas went to hear John. It means that he attracted people from all the villages and the towns and

the farms of Judea and around Jordan. In other words, his audiences included representatives of every city, town, and village. Doesn't mean everybody went, but somebody from every town and village went. So what attracted people to John in the wilderness? Well, first of all, finding John was no easy feat. Let me tell you, it's not, is it? It isn't. As Doc said yesterday, even riding in a comfortable SUV or van is arduous. It's not an easy territory to travel through. The region where he preached is absolutely barren.

It is. Makaris, known as the Fortress of the Gallows, is where Herod imprisoned John and beheaded him. It's a fortified hilltop on the eastern side of the Jordan Valley overlooking the middle northern edge of the Dead Sea. And I've got to tell you, until I visited Macaris in Jordan the first time, I always assumed that John was preaching just a few miles outside Jerusalem's city limits where he was arrested and taken to Jerusalem. Macaris is 30 miles southeast of Jerusalem. People who walked to hear and see John made an arduous journey through a barren wilderness to hear a preacher.

What attracted them? Well, some went out simply because of curiosity. They heard stories about an unusual young man, early 30s, living alone in the wilderness, preaching radical messages. They wanted to see the man dressed like Elijah who dipped locusts in honey. John was the best entertainment they had seen in years. Others heard fragments of his sermons when various men and women came to town and talked about their encounter with John in the wilderness. Such people were genuinely intrigued as to whether God had sent a true prophet after 400 years of silence since Malachi. They went out of curiosity.

One group went to be entertained. Another group was curious. Some heard that John was prophesying that the Messiah would soon appear. And this group were Jews who earnestly awaited the arrival of the Messiah. Some for the right reasons, some for the wrong reasons. Yes. Regardless, they were hoping that they would live to see the day that the hope of Israel would appear. And so the third group went out because there was a spark of hope in them that the Messiah

was on his way. There was another group of curiosity seekers who traveled to examine John, size him up, discern his motives. And they were Jerusalem's ruling class of religious leaders. At that time, there were four major camps among the Jewish leaders. Pharisees, Sadducees, Herodians, and Essenes. Essenes, I guess it's pronounced a sins yes

the Pharisees versus the Sadducees think of the two groups this way the Sadducees were mainly full time religious officials in the synagogues and the temples in the temple such as priests rabbis

the pharisees were the most influential lay leaders of the synagogues they were influential they had money they were the guys who built the synagogues and paid for the expenses of the synagogues. You had the professional religious elite, the Sadducees, opposing the layman religious elite. So the Pharisees were the layman. The Sadducees were the full-time professionals. So, interestingly, it was the Pharisees who were the guardians of the Talmud,

the writings of the rabbis. You would think it was the other way around. No. But the Pharisees were the ones who jealously guarded the Talmud. The Pharisees insisted on the binding force of the unwritten Torah. They believed that Moses passed down oral tradition in addition to the written law. And Phariseeism is still the dominant thought today in Judaism, because most Jews rely on the Talmud to interpret the Torah. The Pharisees first appeared sometime around the year 165 BC. That was shortly after the Maccabean revolt. And then they disappeared from the scene in 70 AD when the Roman army destroyed the temple and Jerusalem.

Josephus, the Jewish historian, was a Pharisee. In his book, The Antiquities of the Jews, he listed four Jewish sects that were active when Jesus walked the earth. Now, Doc, I didn't know of this fourth one. I mentioned the Herodians, but Josephus didn't mention the Herodians. He mentioned a fourth group. He said the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Ascens, and a group that he called the fourth philosophy. I hadn't heard this before. Yeah, this is new to me. So the New Testament scriptures do not mention the sins nor the fourth philosophy. Josephus said that the Pharisees despise delicacies in their diet.

They followed the contract of human reasoning. They honored the elderly. They believe that all things are done by fate. They believe that souls had immortal life. They believe that under the earth, there will be rewards and punishments according to how people lived their lives on earth. So he's saying that the zealots are the fourth philosophy. Okay. Nope. Nope.

This is the Pharisees. These are the Pharisees. Oh. You're going to be fascinated when I get to the fourth philosophy. Okay. And also the ascends. Because I discovered some things about the ascends because I discovered some things about the ascends I never knew

the only thing I knew about the ascends was it was a sect that was connected to the Dead Sea Scrolls but there's a lot more to it Josephus said that Sadducees believed that souls die with their bodies. So remember, the Pharisees said there's a life under the earth. And when you die, your soul lives under the earth and it receives rewards and punishments.

The Sadducees said, no, die when your body dies your soul dies too that's it again Josephus was a Pharisee and when you read his book the Antiquities of the Jews he clearly holds the Sadducees

in contempt because the rest of Josephus' description of the Sadducees is not flattering. He basically described them as an argumentative, disagreeable people who are, quote, able to do almost nothing of themselves. So that was his view.

Now Josephus said that the Ascens, and that's spelled E-S-S-E-N-E-S. You can do your own study on this because there's a deep rabbit hole you can go down. I'm not going to go down that deep. I'm just going to tell you a few things that I found. Josephus said the Essenes taught the immortality of souls, esteemed that rewards of righteousness were to be earnestly sought. The Essenes did not offer sacrifices in the temple,

but they sent to the temple the things that they had dedicated to God. Josephus said that there were approximately 4,000 members of the Ascended sect at the time of Jesus. All men, they did not marry. They adopted children. But then Josephus mentioned the fourth philosophy. He mentioned a man known as Judas the Galilean as the founder of the sect. And members of the fourth philosophy shared many beliefs of the Pharisees.

Josephus said his members did not value any kinds of death, nor did they heed the deaths of their relatives and friends. In other words, they didn't go to funerals. When you died, you died. That's it. They didn't have a funeral. The Jewish historian said that the fourth philosophy members drifted into a madness with a distemper during the time of Jesius Florus. Now, here's the one thing that I found out about the Ascends.

My elementary study and knowledge of the sect has led me to consider the possibility that the Ascends were early mystical Kabbalists. And I must commit to more study and research before arriving at a conclusion. But from what little I know, Doc, it appears to be that Kabbalah mysticism was passed down to the Jewish people through the Essenes, that they were the keepers of it. Yes. But there's something else.

There's something else that's even more fast. But it is absolutely tied to the Kabbalahism. I also suspect that the Essenes may have also been the custodians of Masonic secrets, rituals. I was just getting ready to go. Passed down to Jews since the days of King Solomon. Yes. The association of Kabbalah and Freemasonry in the same sect only solidifies my suspicions about the Essenes. The Essenes sect was governed like a secret society. Yes.

They had initiations. They had secret signs to identify members. They had custodians They had secret signs to identify members. They had custodianship of secret knowledge. And listen to this. The Roman writer, Pliny? I always forget if it's Pliny or Pliny. Pliny the Elder. He wrote that the Ascends had existed for thousands of generations.

It implies, Doc, that they were the bloodline. This mystical, mysterious bloodline that had been given the secret knowledge of Solomon and guarded it and passed it down to other Jews. Not that all Jews had access to it, only a select group. Now there's a heretical teaching that you can find on the internet. Please don't read it. And that is this, that John the Baptist was a secret member of the Ascends. And there's

some out there who said that Jesus lived with the Ascends too. Yes, right. Yes, so don't even go down that road. I'm just telling you it's there. If somebody brings it up to you, just close your ears and your eyes and say, I don't want to hear it.

So, Matthew tells us in verse 5, Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region round about Jordan. So we see that John the Baptist, his unusual ministry, had a strong regional appeal to many people from many classes of people, the poor and the rich, the famous and the unknown went out to see and hear John the Baptist. Verse 6, and were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins. So the absence of prophets after Malachi ended with the emergence of John the Baptist.

And his appearance in the wilderness symbolizes the unexpected places where divine grace can reach people. That's the message here. Remember yesterday, locusts and honey, law and grace. God put John the Baptist in the wilderness to demonstrate that there's no place on earth too remote for grace to find you. That's right. You can be down in a hole so deep that God can't find you with his grace. I've had men and women say to me various times over the years, Rick, I've committed too many sins.

I've done some horrible things. God can't forgive me. I know right now of a very famous man. I say famous. He was many years ago. Most people don't know him today. He was a war hero. He was a member of Congress.

He ran for president of the United States. And he told one of our employees, God can't save me. I committed too many sins. A lot of people have that mistaken idea, but God's grace can reach them. And that's the message of John in the wilderness. God was showing the people, my grace is present in this barren wilderness. Because like the prosperity preachers today, you have to be financially prosperous to prove to the world that you have God's blessings.

Yes. But God told John the Baptist, live out there in the wilderness and I'll bring the people to you and I'll bless them in the barren wilderness. So the path to Jesus, the path to salvation, the path to forgiveness involves recognizing and confessing your sins. And then it's symbolized by baptism true penitents have different thoughts about sin god and holiness there's a change in your thinking the people who went to see john were not baptized into the church they were baptized into repentance. Right. John the Baptist was not a Christian yet.

Because that came later. Remember, Jesus said he looked at the disciples and he said, all of you, you're greater than John the Baptist. What did that mean? It meant John didn't live to see what you're seeing. The introduction of the kingdom, he could only see that it was coming. But you and I are in the kingdom. He could only see that it was coming. But you and I are in the kingdom. Now, Jesus said there's never been a preacher as great as John the Baptist. That's true.

But he said that you and I as disciples are greater than John the Baptist. Because we've been brought into the church in our lifetime. John's mission was to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. The Messiah had yet to appear. A specific group of people not everybody a specific group of people had to be made ready for the arrival of the messiah they had to be prepared to receive him to believe him to be baptized again the next baptism was into the name of Jesus Father Son Holy Spirit a baptism into his church a baptism of fire a baptism of the Holy Spirit none of those things were present in John's baptism it was a baptism unto repentance.

So we move to verse 7. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come you bunch of snakes now john that's not correct like yeah his pr team probably appear now you shouldn't call them snakes we got to work with these people they're going to cause you problems john it appears from the way the verse is structured that john was surprised that the pharisees and sadducees traveled through the wilderness to attend his outdoor meetings.

Now, some of them may have had genuine interest in hearing the prophet. For the purpose of discerning whether he was sent by God. I think it's fair to say some of them went out to hear John. Yes. With a genuine interest to hear him out, to read the man, try to figure him out. But most likely, most of the Sadducees and Pharisees went out to the wilderness to conduct surveillance. Right. On a surprising religious movement that sprung up among the Jews. They went out with a blend of curiosity and jealousy.

John's ministry was something they did not control. That's the heart of it right there, yes. Was it right there? It's like politically years ago when the Tea Party movement started in America, it was genuine. It started, it was an organic movement. It started in the heartland, but it didn't take long for the politicians in Washington to go out to the wilderness to find out who are these people who are having this Tea Party movement. Right. And they took it over. So the Pharisees and the Sadducees did not want this movement to get out of hand.

They didn't want it to challenge their stranglehold on Judaism. And they didn't want to provoke the Roman government into thinking the Jews were revolting. Because they knew, we're just going to get back to old Herod. He's going to send a team out here to find out what all these Jews are doing out here in the wilderness.

And what are we going to say? They wanted to be able to tell Herod, hey, boss, we went out there for you we're on your side eric we went out there to check them out for you we were spying on them so trust me believe me in in the in the religious christian church world today there are spies oh yes there are spies they they they go to any place that they think could be a genuine revival yes to gather intelligence on it to figure out how they

can how they can control it and market it. Yes. Rick and I have been around long enough. We can testify to this, that it happens on a regular basis. Anytime there's a genuine move of God, there's usually someone out there to try to either sabotage it or take it over. See it over and over again. And that leads us to the next point. it over. See it over and over again. And that leads us to the next point.

Jesus openly, I mean John, John openly and publicly rebuked them. It wasn't mild. The rebuke was strong. He called them a generation of vipers.

That's the group that goes out to spy, to do surveillance. So let's break it down. First, let's ascertain the definition of vipers. A viper is not any kind of snake. Vipers are small, approximately two to three feet long. They are extremely dangerous. In fact, they are the most dangerous of all snakes. The venom is deadly poisonous. There are two types of vipers in the world today, pit vipers and old world vipers. So most likely, and I'm not a biologist, but most likely the vipers that John and Jesus spoke of were old world vipers, simply because old world vipers live in that region of the world, including Africa, the Middle East, India. So vipers have long, hollow, venomous fangs

that are attached to movable bones in the upper jaw. And it's interesting, Doc, vipers determine how much venom to inject in each individual victim. They actually regulate it. They know how much venom it will take to kill a particular prey. So if they were hunting, let's say, like a small rodent or something like that, they would not want to waste all their venom on that rodent, but a larger animal would. So, okay. I didn't know that.

That's new information for me. Yeah. Somehow they have an internal gauge that tells them how much venom to pump into the victim. They also, and I forget which one, Doc, I want to say the pit vipers have heat sensors. They can detect body heat which is fascinating so the venom a viper venom contains protein degrading enzymes that produce pain swelling disruption of the blood clotting system causes blood loss from damage done to the victim's heart, causes necrosis, which is a premature death of cells. And death is typically caused by an extreme collapse in blood pressure.

So John called them vipers. He knew exactly what a viper does he knows the reason he knows the damage of viper does to an animal or human right he lived out in the desert so he probably called one or two vipers he sure did and he said that thing will will destroy your heart. That's the message. The vipers destroy hearts. That's how you die from a viper bite. It's your heart collapses.

Your blood pressure collapses. Your heart bleeds. And so John was saying, you've come here to destroy the hearts of these people. So when the word viper is applied to humans, it means a dangerous, treacherous, malignant person capable of doing great harm to the hearts and minds and souls of humans. So accusing somebody of being a viper is equivalent to accusing them of destroying a person's heart and bringing about premature spiritual death. The next word is generation. Remember what he said. Oh, generation of vipers.

Who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Some Bible translations use the word brood instead of generation. In this context, it means offspring, children. A brood is a number of young hatched from eggs. So a family of baby vipers is a brood. But that means you came, that means

your mama is a brood, is a viper. Or your daddy is. Your daddy is a viper. And that daddy is. Your daddy is a viper. And that's what he's saying because in the next verse it says, but you say you have Abraham to your father. I'm saying your father is a snake. It's exactly what he was saying to him.

He wasn't nice at all. He wasn't nice at all. He wasn't diplomatic. I mean, you're talking about a guy in camel hair dipping bugs in honey. And out comes from the city marching these uppity-up, snooty religious leaders in their expensive robes. And he looks at him, he goes, you snakes, you vipers. I know what you're out here to do. You're out here to destroy the hearts of these poor people. And I'm not going to let you do it. You know, it's interesting he makes that phrase, who hath warned you to flee the wrath to come? Yes.

It certainly wasn't John that had warned them. So they weren't out. He was actually calling them out, in my opinion. He was calling them out. You're not out here to flee the wrath to come. First of all, the Pharisees didn't think they would suffer wrath because they were so righteous in keeping the law. They didn't have to worry about the wrath to come. First of all, the Pharisees didn't think they would suffer wrath because they were so righteous in keeping the law. They didn't have to worry about the wrath. And the Sadducees didn't believe in a wrath to come.

You got it, Doc. You did. You got it. That's exactly the way John was seeing it. So John called the Pharisees and the Sadducees. When he said you brood vipers, he said, you're the children of a deadly serpent. Yes. Now, Jesus later said to the Pharisees, and you can read this in John 8, verse 44. You are of your father, the devil. And you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and doesn't stand in truth because there is no truth in him.

When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own, for he is a liar and the father of lies. Jesus didn't have anything good to say about Satan either. And Jesus told the Pharisees, your daddy is the devil. John told the Pharisees and the Sadducees, your daddy is a viper. Well, the devil is a serpent. Both are saying the same thing. You're the offspring of a serpent. So in Matthew 23, verse 33, Jesus called the Pharisees serpents and children of vipers who were in danger of hell's fire.

He said, you serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna? John's asking the same thing, except John's saying, hey, who told you that you needed to escape? Who warned you? So John the Baptist labeled both groups, Pharisees and Sadducees, as the children of a serpent. And this next statement I'm going to make is controversial. And I will understand why many people will strenuously object to it. And I don't have a complete understanding on this, but there seems to be a thread running through the Bible that there is a sinister bloodline that has existed for thousands of years. If you take the words of Jesus and John the Baptist literally regarding the Sadducees and

the Pharisees, there is an implied condemnation that both groups belonged in a true sense to the seed of the serpent, Satan. It doesn't mean everybody in that racial group were the seed of the serpent, but there is a segment that identifies there in that group that is the seed of a serpent. Doc, I'm on thin ice. I'm not teaching the doctrine of the serpent seed. I don't know if any of you have ever heard that doctrine. That says that Eve had sex with Satan and produced children who became a race of vipers. That's not what I'm teaching.

But there does seem to be this thread running through the scripture that there's a bloodline. Just like I told you about the Essenes. I mean, Pliny said, or Pliny, he said, these guys have been around, he said, thousands of generations. Thousands of generations. I mean, that's a long time. And that they were passing down the secret knowledge of Babylon the hidden knowledge of Solomon's temple do you want to touch on

a talk or you want to move on what do you think well the only response I would have to that is you had the flood which wiped out any, you know, anything other life besides Noah, and at least that's what the scripture says, Noah and his family, and so anything that was produced before then, unless there's something in the scripture I'm missing, were wiped out. Nothing else survived. And so, the animal's on the ark. So, but, you know,

I understand where you're coming from as far as, you know, both John and Jesus identifying them as the offspring of Satan. So I understand where you would be going with that thread on that.

So the question would be, when did that generation begin? Or when did that offspring begin? And we don't know. We don't know. But we got two authorities, Jesus Christ himself and John the Baptist calling them the children of a snake. Not just any snake, the most dangerous of snakes, a viper. So I don't think we'll know this until Jesus returns and then at that time it won't even matter. Jesus, I mean, John also alluded that he knew something about the future state of the religious rulers of Judaism.

He asked them, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Yes. His question conveys astonishment that people as wicked and hypocritical as the Pharisees and Sadducees should feign interest in learning how to escape from God's coming wrath on Judgment Day. His words imply spiritual peril for members of both groups. He suggested that they had been warned to flee impending divine judgment. It was like John was saying, who tipped you off that the lake of fire is waiting for you. He said, who has warned you to flee from the wrath? John's question to the religious elite inquired that he wanted to know who had told them to flee

and shown them the way to flee. To escape damnation without repentance. They wanted to escape damnation without repentance. And John had not taught them. They had not heard any of John's sermons. And he said, where did you get this information? I want to know the name of the teacher that told you you could escape Gehenna's flames and I'll just point out again the Pharisees didn't think they were gonna face wrath because they were righteous and the Sadducees didn't believe in the wrath to come right so what were

they doing out there that's what john was saying i want to know why you're out here i know what you believe but why are you here how did how did john know what they believed well his daddy was a priest in the temple. Yes. Right. I mean, really, John the Baptist, you know, family-wise, their career was the priesthood. Yes. That was it. And so you can imagine that his daddy might have been a bit disappointed that he didn't follow in his father's footsteps there, went out to the desert. You've got a great line up here. It was a PK that went astray.

Where's your son? He's out in the desert. Doing what? Eating bugs. These kids today. Locust and wild honey. What's next? Oh, he'll grow out of it. He'll come to his senses.

Now, notice John spoke of the wrath to come with an air of confidence and certainty. If John knew that he was the messenger that Malachi prophesied would come he knew what malachi said in chapter 3 of the book of malachi behold i send my messenger and he will prepare the way before me and the lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight. Behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. But who can endure the day of his coming and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fuller soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. And they will bring offerings and righteousness to the Lord. Then the offering of Judah and

Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and in the former years. Now, I went on to say, then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hard workers in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner. And do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts. So John challenged the aloofness and smugness of the Pharisees and Sadducees. It was as though he said, how dare you come to my meeting wearing your fake costume of humility? What motivated you to do such a thing?

I mean, how do you impress a guy in camel hair eating bugs? I had thought about that before. I mean, what do you do to impress him? He wasn't impressed by their jewelry. He wasn't impressed by their expensive robes you can see John's eyes looking them up and down gone oh boy check out this guy he's walking a little light and a loafer in me speaking to the Pharisees it's as though John implied because you believe you have eternal security because of your own righteousness, what makes you fear you may be in danger of divine wrath on the day of the Lord?

Because really, the Pharisees believed in eternal security. Yes. They didn't have to do anything. They were saved. They didn't have to do anything they were they were saved they didn't have to think about anything they didn't worry about anything speaking to the sadducees it's as though john said why do you come to hear sermons about the wrath of god when you don't even believe in it that's right that would be the more liberal group today right that's why they don't even believe in hell what are you worried about why are you here so the main the main points to know is this the vipers are the most are the worst

and most dangerous of serpents and corrupt religious leaders are the worst and most dangerous of serpents and corrupt religious leaders are the worst and most dangerous of men yes among all the classes of sinners on earth hypocritical and corrupt religious leaders are among the least likely of men to repent and have their hearts changed by the holy spirit what i mean by that the most difficult group to reach with holy spirit anointed sermon are super religious people they're the ones that sit in the church pews and seats and just

fold their arms and shake their heads and they're like, that's not for me. I'll look at my time here. Okay, verse 8. Bring forth therefore fruits, meet for repentance. At this point, John delivered a stern message to the high-minded Jewish rulers by challenging the authenticity of their public repentance.

He demanded that they produce evidence of the repentance. So I think, John, I think some of thesecees and pharisees went through the motions just for the benefit of the crowds they pretended that they were repenting they wanted everybody to hear their prayers of repentance and john looked at him and said okay i heard prayer. Prove, prove that you've repented. John employed the metaphor of trees bearing fruit. He told them that a true repentance should be as visible to people as apples hanging on a tree. I like that, yes. The term fruit symbolizes the works,

the actions, the change, thinking, and speech that accompany genuine repentance. Only then can a person truly say he or she has repented. The call is not for empty words, but for a heartfelt and evident change in lifestyle. In other words, John said, if you truly repentant, stop acting like Pharisees and Sadducees. That's really what it comes down to. Right. If you truly repent, you wouldn't be a Sadducee anymore.

If you truly repent, you wouldn't be a Pharisee. Right. And you'd be down here in the water getting baptized. Yes, with the common people. So the relationship between repentance and reformation is the presence of fruits worthy of repentance. Reformation is not repentance. Reformation issues forth from repentance. Reformation is a changed life. It's the fruit of our repentance. Reformation is a changed life.

It's the fruit of our repentance. So we see in this verse the introduction of the Christian tenet that teaches that we can discern a person's heart by the fruit that's evident in their life. Dead trees don't produce fruit. Oranges don't grow on pine trees. It's as simple as that.

Look at the fruit on a tree. If the tree has no fruit, you have to ask yourself why. What is this fruit? If the fruit doesn't match the tree, there's something wrong. If you saw a pine tree with oranges, you'd say, hey, there's something weird going on here. Something unnatural.

Something unnatural. Let's jump forward. We're in Matthew 3. Let's go to Matthew 7, verses 15 to 20. Jesus said, beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. Wow. Are grapes gathered from thorn bushes?

Are figs gathered from thistles? So every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, you will recognize them by their fruits. Wow. Matthew 21, verse 43. Jesus told the Jewish rulers that God would take the kingdom from them.

Who would he give it to? Verse 43. Therefore, I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. Not their fruits, but the kingdom's fruits. Yes. Luke 3, verse 8. Jesus used nearly the identical words spoken by John the Baptist

that we will read tomorrow in verse 9. Jesus said, bearing fruit in keeping with repentance. Excuse me, let me read. Jesus said, bear fruit in keeping with repentance and do not begin to say to yourselves, we have Abraham as our father. For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. John the Baptist said, this is verse nine. We'll study this tomorrow. And think not to say within yourselves, we have Abraham to our father. For I say unto you that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. In the Acts of the Apostles,

Walt told King Agrippa what he said that made the Jews so furious they tried to kill him. This is in Acts 26. Therefore, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, listen to this, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance. Verse 21, for this reason, the Jew sees me in the temple and tried to kill me. Think about what Paul said. The Jews in the temple listened to Paul until he told them to repent, turn back to God, and change the way that they lived, talked, and thought.

For what purpose? To prove that they truly repented. When Paul said those words, bring forth evidence, fruit that you've repented. When he said those words, the Jews went into a rage inside the temple, dragged Paul outside and tried to murder him. For what? For what reason? For telling them that true repentance produces fruits in our lives. So repentance is seated in our heart and soul. It's internal.

The byproduct of genuine repentance is evidenced by a change in our life. Fruits are external. Repentance is internal. Fruits are external. Repentance is an inward work that produces an outward result. So John's voice in the wilderness went beyond a condemnation of sin. His voice called men and women to what they could be. Yes, he rebuked evil, but he challenged the people to live good lives as pleasing to God.

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